Deborah Copaken quotes

Id always assumed that by 40 Id have at least a modicum of stability - a steady income, an established career, a bountiful fullness, like a pillow into which I could sink as I entered the second half of my life. (Deborah Copaken)

Photography forces one out into the world, interacting with people and the environment. It flexes all those right brain, spatially-adept muscles.

Deborah Copaken

My husband and I were born three weeks apart, and our plan had always been to throw a joint party for our 40th birthdays.

Deborah Copaken

This is what sexism does best: it makes you feel crazy for desiring parity and hopeless about ever achieving it.

Deborah Copaken

I am nothing if not rational about what is worthy of my anxiety and what is not, and I refuse to live my life as if a giant bus is just around the corner, waiting to crush me the minute I step off the curb.

Deborah Copaken

Born in 1966, I came of age at the dawn of a revolution. The past was gone; we would move on and get over it!

Deborah Copaken

I sell my first book to Random House, a memoir of my years as a war photographer, for twice my NBC salary.

Deborah Copaken

I do miss the excitement of seeing history up close, of having intimate knowledge, through direct experience, of what happens when people and governments clash, but I do not miss the danger or the constant displacement.

Deborah Copaken

Deborah Copaken

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Occupation: American Author
Born: March 11, 1966
Quotes count: 8

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